{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/s1","title_num":"2","num":"§ 1.","heading":"Time for election of Senators","status":null,"guid":"idd1a1e59c-7dda-11e7-999a-a10f27f1d75c","source_credit":"(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 3, 48 Stat. 879.)","seq_in_title":0,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch1","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2","level":"title","num":"Title 2—","heading":"THE CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch1","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 1—","heading":"ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id5d01f0c4-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t2/s1\"><num value=\"1\">§ 1.</num><heading> Time for election of Senators</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">At the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id5d01f0c5-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1914-06-04/ch103\">June 4, 1914, ch. 103</ref>, § 1, <ref href=\"/us/stat/38/384\">38 Stat. 384</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1934-06-05/ch390\">June 5, 1934, ch. 390</ref>, § 3, <ref href=\"/us/stat/48/879\">48 Stat. 879</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id5d01f0c6-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id5d01f0c7-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1934—Act <date date=\"1934-06-05\">June 5, 1934</date>, substituted “3d day of January” for “fourth day of March”.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"miscellaneous\" id=\"id5d01f0c8-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Constitutional Provisions</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: “* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Time for election of Senators, see Const. Art. I, § 4, cl. 1.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Vacancies in the Senate, see Const. Amend. XVII.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"114-115","currency_date":"2015-12-28","congress":114,"law_num":115,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":62,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","07","08","10","15","20","21","23","25","26","29","31","40","42","47","49","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}